TextPad is a powerful and straightforward text editor designed for Windows, offering a wide range of features that cater to both casual users and developers. Its simple interface makes it easy to use, while still providing advanced functionality for handling large files and complex tasks.

One of its key features is the customizable syntax highlighting, which supports numerous programming languages. This makes it an excellent tool for coding, helping users easily identify and correct errors. Additionally, TextPad allows users to record and automate repetitive tasks through macros, saving time and improving efficiency.

TextPad also supports a multi-document interface, enabling users to work on several files simultaneously. This is particularly useful for programmers who need to cross-reference different files or manage multiple projects at once. Its search and replace function is robust, with the ability to search across multiple open documents.

TextPad is a reliable and efficient text editor suitable for a wide range of users. Its combination of simplicity and powerful features makes it a great tool for coding, document editing, and more. Whether you're writing code or editing text, TextPad provides the necessary tools to enhance your productivity.

Key Features:

• Large file support: Handles files of unlimited size based on system memory.
• Multiple document interface: Allows opening and editing multiple documents in a single window.
• Customizable syntax highlighting: Supports various programming languages with customizable syntax coloring.
• Powerful search and replace: Offers regular expressions and multi-line search/replace.
• Clip libraries: Provides a tool for saving and reusing frequently used text snippets.
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts: Allows configuring key bindings to suit personal preferences.
• Built-in file compare tool: Compares the content of two files side by side.
• Code folding: Collapses code sections for better visibility and organization.
• Spell checker: Provides spell-checking functionality with dictionaries for multiple languages.
• Macro recording: Automates repetitive tasks by recording and playing back macros.

• A command to Refresh the view on the Compare Files context menu.

• Crash when clicking the dividing line between the file name and its contents in the Compare Files window.
• When saving files with the UTF16BE encoding, only the first half of each buffer written had its bytes swapped.
• The UNICODE BOM setting for the document class overrode the one on the Save As dialog box.
• Line breaking did not follow the rules for Japanese text.
• The spell checker did not ignore Japanese text.
• Crash due to non-ASCII characters in syntax definition keywords. (These are invalid.)
• Find in Files did not use the corresponding document class encoding for files with indeterminate encodings.
• Compare Files reported differences between no space and spaces, when Ignore Spaces is set.
• Sort was disabled in block mode.
• Checkboxes in scrollable lists overlapped, and toolbars did not scale correctly, on high pixel density displays.
• Changes to the state of scrollable check boxes were not updated for screen readers.
• HTML Validator output was written to the Search Results window.
• When started with "-f path" and "path" did not exist or did not contain ConfigState.xml, per user files were stored in the samples subfolder.
• Text was not displayed correctly in the Incremental Finder when the display is scaled at 200%.

• Please see upgrades for information about upgrading to TextPad 8.
• Installing TextPad 8 does not uninstall TextPad 7.
• TextPad 8 cannot be installed on Windows XP.